New Hampshire Magazine - March 2010

Greener Pastures

On a brilliant autumn day in Grafton, afternoon sunlight streams into a timberframe home through expansive windows illuminating the hanging Boston ferns, the light green walls and the oak and pine floors. An earthen red brick hearth, the focal point…

Designed Inside for a Grand View

It’s not often that you get the chance to design a 12,000-square-foot vacation home, especially one that calls for the creativity and ingenuity to accommodate four generations of a close-knit family. Located in Bald Peak Colony Club on Lake Winnipesaukee,…

Bed, Breakfast and Beyond

The weather outside is frightful, but my dear, the night is delightful. A snowy eve enrobed in the warmth of a cozy inn is one of life’s greatest joys. Better yet, after lingering over a four-course dinner, your room is…

Letters to the Editor

Like a Dream Thank you so much for the wonderful pages of the Inn on Newfound Lake. When you go there it is like a dream; every year there are added items. It is like going into another world. The…

Pillows With a View

Printmaker Susann Foster Brown of Milton discovered that she could print her etchings on fine-quality muslin. She then “mounts” the prints on pillows that she sews and hand quilts. The different pieced fabrics and colors visually act as the mat…

The Urge to Merge

Just about everything is merging these days: Hospital A acquires Hospital B; one mega phone company gobbles up a smaller one; entire TV networks change owners overnight. And we’ve given up trying to remember the name of our bank because…

Winter Wonder

The New Year begins on January 1, but, from a homeowner’s perspective, the old year ends long before that turning point — somewhere in November, I’d say. That’s when the true deadline for the year comes ’round, when hoses must…

Blue Skies

Interested observers of New Hampshire politics are still reeling over the 2006 election results which, with one swoop, turned virtual total control of state government over to the Democratic Party for the first time in more than a century. In…